..i'm sure there's gotta be some good stories behind alot of these...

Proverbs 101 ..-mostly origionals

If we are to win this battle,
It will be on our knees,
not our back or our lees.
To be on our knees is to be humbling ourselves in the sight of the Lord.
It is a action and a position that acknowledges God for who He is.

The reason why adversity or lack of finances are allowed by YWWH is so that we will pray. For if things were always coasting or in a abundance wouldn’t we be tempted to forget God?

Silence is often misinterpreted… but never misquoted.

How much church would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck church?

It is the mark of a superior mind to be able to disagree without being disagreeable.

As sure as a lion roars,
So the Son of God will return.

Those who do not wish to stay up late should not give little ones cans of coke.

Don't do anything you don't want your younger sibling to do

Never ask for a girl’s # before her name

Never trust your youth leader while they are holding duct tape

Don't let that cute little puppy sit on your lap. He will grow into a big dog

Never do business with someone who starts out his sales pitch with: “psst! Buddy!”

If you’re looking for truth don’t search for the answer within yourself: you’re the one who’s confused.

'The truth of irony"
'To be great you must be least
To live you must die
To rest you must labor
There is no gain without loss
There is no loss without gain."
'If thou would a dragon fight,
Oh warrior grim and warrior bold
Then go, contest the devil's might,
The sire of lies, the worm of old."

Gentleness is a virtue of kings. -Micah Olson

A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

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Live to die, die to live. Lucas

To die free is better then to live a slave.-Lucas

on a hot,boring day cover you body in watermellon seeds and run through a croud of people screeming: "wild ticks! Run for your life!"

Grandpa castle’s sayings:

“who knows what lies beneath that rolling pompadour?”
“easy to get married, hard to keep house.”
“cig-garettes!” (ejaculation.)
“I wear her silk –chames; mama wears my BVD’s”

“the world is but a bubble

Of wilderness and woe,
Go where you will
Stay where you’re at.
Eat a lot of fried ‘taters
And get fat!”

“could you get me a nickels worth of five-dollar bills?”

“five-dollar fine to get married without a chance.”

“well dad burn!” (ejaculation)

“Goodness gracious, land-sakes, agnus, maud, ‘n’ francis!” (another ejaculation)

“she’s in the corner, standing on her head in the corner bawling for buttermilk.”

“somewhere in france I tore my pants, somewhere in june I played a tune.”

“evening smells.” ( when taking off shoes at the end of the day.)

“jelly is good for the belly.”

“there’s better men, but they’re skeersh (scarce)”

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Do not kick a TV.

Do not light anything on fire you dont want to burn.

Like a coat in winter And warmth to cold fingers, So are kind words to a hurting soul. -Micah Olson

A clean bedroom is a sure sign of an unstable mind.

One mouse in a trap is worth 2 on the loose

Eatting guava and roastbeef together is like a young man wanting to get married, but never asking anyone

If you have no wings you cannot fly. -Micah Olson

Don't eat an excess amount of beans or eggs before company comes.

It doesn't matter how high you are, the ground will always break your fall. -unknown

Religion is an expensive crypt.

Like a paper cut on the finger,
And lemon juice in the eye,
So are harsh words to a brother. -Micah Olson

Crimes,
That are done every day
By mimes
Who just don’t know how to say:
I wanna be loved,
I don’t’ know what I’m thinking of.
We wanna be loved,
We don’t know what we’re thinking of.

Death comes to all. - Lucas

Life is like a leaf in October rains, it falls to the ground and rises no more, Life is like smoke in the wind, it dissipates, so aim for that distant shore.

stupidity is not an asset even though it is sometimes treated as one.

Earth is like a ice cream cone, heaven is like the ice cream maker.

All shall die, Some die spiritually on this earth for a short time And some will die physically in hell forever.

Earth will melt heaven will always be there.

People are like grapes, some are sweet some are sour.

Bad attitudes are like rotten eggs.

Peoples hearts are like clay. Some are soft, some are hard, some are broken Exc.

Shut up you idiot!

"To raise a child in the USA, giving him all the material things he wants, the perfect education, ect. and don't give him a world perspective, is like locking someone in a mansion without windows, in the middle of a refugee camp.

"If a man is looking in the wrong place, no matter how diligentlly he searches, he will never find what he is looking for."

Morning clears the mind. -Micah Olson

"Be careful around women. For they are beautiful, and traitors. Cool, and calculating. Even as sly as a serpent. But don't worry my friend, there not all the same. There're others that are worse!"

'When you come to a parting of the way, and one way is flat and fair while the other is steep, and rugged, and stormy, choose the latter; strength was never built by walking the easy path, and the mind is never trained if it remains untested."- Lucas

You can lead a fool to wisdom but you can't make him think.

"A Wise Man can see more from the bottom of a well than a Fool can see from the top of a mountain." .

There is always the sun shining beyond the clouds
no matter how dark they may be. -Micah Olson

Humor allows one to make a point without
Drawing blood. (Unknown)

There are no short cuts to any place worth going.

If you have nothing worth fighting and dying for, your life is worth nothing. - Lucas

quotables... good, but not as origional
To die still waiting is almost a happy thought for me. But to live, having settled for less than my heart cries for? That is a tragedy I cannot bring myself to choose. (Ashley Weller)

Support bacteria -- it's the only culture some people have!

Man who run behind car get exhausted.

He who sitteth on an upturned tack shall surely rise.

Even the greatest of whales is helpless in middle of desert.

Man with one chopstick go hungry.

If there is a God in heaven who cares that I should seek, then I challenge him to create something... even a small morsel of some goodness worth seeking. Anything but the death that turns up everywhere I look. (Obsessed, Ted Dekker)

7/5th of all people do not understand fractions.

43% of all statistics are worthless.

"Aye, fight and you may die, run, and you'll live... at least a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willin' to trade ALL the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take away our lives, but they'll never take... OUR FREEDOM!" (William Wallace in Braveheart)

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. ~ Vincent Van Gogh

Not a day passes over this earth but men and women of note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows. ~ Charles Reed

A bird in the hand is safer than one overhead.

"You never test the depth of a river with both feet."

"Oh, give me a man who is man enough to give himself just to the woman who is worth him." (Casanova)

"True love is worth waiting for." (Casanova)

Humpty-dumpty...
was pushed. (T-shirt)

A good friend will come and bail you out of jail. A true friend will be sitting next to you, saying, "Man, that was fun!" (Bumper sticker)

He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

If you are willing to admit faults, you have one less fault to admit.

You cannot get to the top by sitting on your bottom.

War does not determine who is right, war determines who is left.

"Sin will take you farther than you want to go,
Keep you longer than you want to stay;
And cost you more than you want to pay." (Unknown)

"we will have all of eternity to celebrate the victories, and only a few hours in which to win them." (Amy Carmichael)

"raise sons with alert minds,
Proven integrity,
Manly courage and mature faith.
(Wm. B. Sprag)

A closed mouth gathers no feet.

Your heart understands what your head cannot yet conceive; trust your heart.

A peacock who sits on his tail is just another turkey.

'Sons of Gondor! Of Rohan! My brothers; I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the courage of Men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of wolves and shattered shields when the Age of Men comes crashing down, but it is not this day! This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!"- Aragorn, 'The Return of the King"

All men die. Very few men really live.-Braveheart

Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. -Mark Twain

What this country needs is cleaner minds and dirtier fingernails. -Mark Twain

Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to. -Mark Twain

I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. ~ Benjamin Franklin

Early to bed, ealy to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. -Benjamin Franklin

Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company. -George Washington

There's two ways you can go,
One way you can save your riches
And the other you can save your soul.
-Rich Mullins

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. -Mark Twain

"Shut up! You don't know the first things about methane deposits!" "Do you?" "Shut up!" (The Rundown.)

"Ooooh! What a mess! Bachelors—-they’re all the same—-the nice ones anyway. Never trust a tidy man." (Mrs. ‘Arris goes to Paris.)

Life is like an onion, you peel off one layer at a time and sometimes you weep. (Seen on a poster a long time ago)

Nobody ever won a war by dying for his country. You win a war by making the other poor soul die for his country.- General Patton

A man who thinks too much about his ancestors is like a potato—the best part of him is underground.

Those who would give up essential liberty for a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -Benjamin Franklin

Every great man stands upon the shoulders of great men gone before him. -unknown

Light travels faster than sound, This is why some people appear bright Until you hear them speak. -unknown

There is always hope. Aragorn, 'The Two Towers"

God prepares great men for great tasks by great trials. ~ John Baptiste Gressett

If you cannot do great things; do small things in a great way. ~ J.F. Clarke

Everything has beauty but not everyone sees it.

The purpose of life is to die a noble death. -unknown

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

There's a wideness in Gods mercy I cannot find in my own, And it keeps this fire burning to melt this heart of stone. -Rich Mullins

Great people are those who can make others feel that they, too, can become great. ~ Mark Twain

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. ~ Albert Einstein

'Arise, arise!
Spears shall be broken, shields will be splintered! Ride now, ride now! Ride to ruin and the end of the world! A red-day! A sword-day! Death!" Thioden, king of Rohan 'The Return of the King" (You had to be there to appreciate this one.)

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you. -Cyril Connolly

The entire world will stand still to watch a man with a passion.

If you take five cents from my pocket, I will feel cheated and robbed.
Take it from my heart, and you can have everything.

Anger is a condition in which the tongue works faster than the mind.

It's not the fall that hurts you, It's the sudden stopping at the bottom. -unknown

It takes both sunshine and rain to make a rainbow.

Dawn is ever the hope of men. Aragorn at Helm's Deep, 'The Two Towers"

'A noble death is a gift which no man is to poor to buy." -the last battle" by C.S. Lewis

"The believer is happy. The doubter is wise."

There's only one true love in this world of lies. -Rich Mullins

"Hear and you forget; see and you remember; do and you understand."